It is clear that the 'video of the CEO talking in the kitchen' used by NVIDIA for the keynote speech is CG made with in-house tools



Regarding the keynote speech given by NVIDIA in April 2021, a part of the scene where CEO Jensen Huang will be on stage and the kitchen used as the shooting site are CG created

with the 3D design collaboration platform 'NVIDIA Omniverse'. I revealed that it was.

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https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2021/08/11/omniverse-making-of-gtc/

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In the keynote speech in April 2021, CEO Jensen Huang will speak as a speaker on the next-generation SoC ' DRIVE Atlan ' for self-driving cars, the new Ampere-based GPU ' RTX A5000 ', and the interactive AI framework ' Jarvis'. , And announced the AI framework ' Morpheus' for cyber attacks.

On August 13, 2021, NVIDIA newly revealed that the background of the kitchen in this keynote speech and a part of the scene where the fan CEO appeared was CG created with NVIDIA Omniverse.

The fan CEO actually created by NVIDIA Omniverse will appear for 14 seconds from 1 hour 2 minutes 41 seconds to 1 hour 2 minutes 55 seconds of the keynote speech. Click the embedded link below to watch the movie from that location.

GTC 2021 Keynote with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang --YouTube


The screenshot of that part looks like this. This is a scene where CEO Fan introduces NVIDIA's first CPU 'Grace ' for data centers in a space full of cyber feeling.



In addition, it turned out that 'Fan CEO's Kitchen', which was customary in previous lectures, was also CG created by NVIDIA Omniverse in the keynote speech in April 2021. The making movie of this keynote is below, and the CG version fan CEO and kitchen part starts around 23 minutes and 6 seconds .

Connecting in the Metaverse: The Making of the GTC Keynote --YouTube


'Computer graphics were essential to creating the keynote footage because the team was remote-working in the first place,' NVIDIA said of the keynote. Regarding the CG version fan CEO, 'We did a full scan of the face and body to create a 3D model, trained AI to imitate gestures and expressions, and applied AI magic to make the clone real. The video that the CG version fan was disassembled and appeared on the holo deck in Omniverse was a production that made me wonder how much of the keynote speech was real and how much was rendered. '

NVIDIA said, 'We started Omniverse with the idea of connecting existing 3D tools for the Metaverse. Hopefully we'll be working within Omniverse in 20 years.' , Omniverse is appealing.

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